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Asked: 2026-06-08T19:05:02+00:00

I have a simple redirect in my code: public ActionResult Redirect() { return Redirect(http://url.com);

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I have a simple redirect in my code:

public ActionResult Redirect()
{
    return Redirect("http://url.com");
}

I noticed that the response includes the following html in the response body:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: http://url.com
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:53:52 GMT
Content-Length: 198

<html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>
<h2>Object moved to <a href="http://url.com">here</a>.</h2>
</body></html>

Is there a way to remove the html from the response body? I would like the Content-Length to be zero by not having anything in the response body.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can do this by implementing your own ActionResult instead of using the built in RedirectResult, which will send that HTML.

    However, you should not need to – the user should never see that markup, but it is provided for, mostly, legacy issues. Also be aware some browsers can be set to not follow redirects – not having the body there would then render the result pretty useless.

    If you still want a Redirect without body, this result class would do it:

    public sealed class RedirectResultNoBody : ActionResult
{
    private readonly string location;
    public RedirectResultNoBody(string location) 
    {
        this.location = location;
    }
    public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context) 
    {
        var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
        response.StatusCode = 302;
        response.RedirectLocation = location;
        response.End();
    }
}

    Which would then be used like this:

    public ActionResult Redirect()
{
    return new RedirectResultNoBody("http://url.com");
}
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